The Philadelphia Dancing Assembly (1749–1849) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… United States Gazette (Philadelphia), Dec. 12, 1798, America’s Historical Newspapers database. Résumé The upper class of Philadelphia—a political, economic, and cultural center in eighteenth-century British North America—followed … Rules governing all aspects of participation, including the dancing itself, sustained the Assembly’s role in determining class status and creating social ties among colonial and early-national social elites. Places > Sports & Leisure Mots-clés Assemblies Advertisement Dance North America For many in British North America’s upper and aspiring classes during the eighteenth century, the English social world was the model for refined behavior. 1 It should be noted …
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